Battalion/Page 3 July 27, 1982 Local liquor store offers wine for nearly $11,000 by Cyndy Davis Battalion Staff Pay almost $ 11,000 for a bot tle of wine? If it was the last available bot tle of its kind, you might recon sider. And Randy’s Liquor own ers Ira and Georgeann Held and Sammy Pugh have such a bottle for sale. The trio is asking $10,860 for the 1953 Petrus Double Mag num which it purchased from the Chateau Petrus cellars in France. The wine was trans ported to Dallas last week and arrived in College Station Friday night. Held said the , French Bor deaux wine is the last available bottle of its kind. About 2,000 were originally produced and the last sold for $11,000 at the Heublein Auction in Chicago about two months ago. “It’s an incredible vintage, an incredible year, an incredible wine,” he said. For those with less expensive taste, Held also has two “very rare” double magnum-sized bot tles of Chateau Lafite Roth schild for sale. A double magnum-sized bot tle holds about one gallon. The 1949 vintage Rothschild is available for $2,695. Held said the type of bottle makes this wine rare. The Marie-Jeanne bottle, “a squatty, double mag num” is hand-blown. This parti cular type of bottle is no longer made. The 1961 Rothschild costs $3,800. “These are probably some of the rarest bottles of wine around,” he said. The three bottles are kept in cases on a shelf in the “always 68 degrees temperature” of Ran dy’s Liquor Store on University Drive. A special cabinet had been ordered for them but was not completed on time. Held said he expected a wine collector or businessman might buy the wine. However, this wine might never be served with dinner. “There are many collectors in the Bryan-College Station area who purchase wine as an invest ment — like fine art,” he said. Several wine collectors have already expressed interest in the wine, he said, but he declined to name any prospective buyers, saying that wine collectors are “very private people.” A wealthy businessman might buy a bottle of wine such as the Petrus and have some friends over for dinner, charging them $2,000 a plate, serve the wine, donate the money to charity and claim it all as a tax deduction, Held said. He said he believes bringing this wine to College Station might start a trend in the area. “If the people of Bryan- College Station want something, they have had to go to Dallas or Houston to get it,” Held said. “Now here’s something they won’t have to travel for. Now the people in Houston and Dallas will have to come here. This is something they don’t have.” Before coming to College Sta tion 10 months ago, Held was in the wine import/export business in Panama and in Paris. He expects to purchase more rare bottles of wine in the fu ture, he said. But his influence in the wine industry has not always gotten him everything he wanted. Last week he offered $42$00 for an 1864 Chateau Lafite Dou ble Magnum but was turned down. Today’s almanac United Press International Today is Tuesday, July 27, the 208th day of 1982 with 157 to follow. On this date in history: In 1909, Orville Wright set a world record by staying aloft in a plane for one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds. Chateau Lafite In 1953, after two years and 17 days of negotiations, the war in Korea was declared at an end. In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted, 27-11, to re commend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon on an article relating to Watergate. In 1980, deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran died in an Egyptian milit ary hospital of cancer at the age of 60. He was buried two days later in a state funeral attended by former President Nixon. A thought for the day: French novelist Alexander Dumas said, “Business? It’s quite simple. 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